My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" is mentioned in the email newsletter "October 2023 News from the International Society for Quality-Of-Life Studies", circulated today.
See also:
"Wasted GDP in the USA" featured in ISQOLS monthly newsletter (which concerned the "members only" newsletter)
According to my Google Scholar profile, my research has to date attracted 978 citations (+11 since October 9th), including 115 citations so far in 2023 (+10 since October 9th).
My i10-index remains 36 and my h-index 18.
Today I have applied for a research leave 2024-2025 at University of Stavanger, with a project focused on my book project Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement.
Today I have given the 4th out of 6 seminars in Ex.phil., in two rounds, in the University of Stavanger´s bachelor in psychology. The theme was broadly speaking philosophical anthropology.
Today I have had a writing day devoted to work on an application related to my book project Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement.
Mention of my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" is featured in the latest monthly email newsletter of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), "Members Only ISQOLS October 2023 updates and info".
Today I have had half a writing day, with work done on dissemination of my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" by way of my popular science piece "A large Gross Domestic Product doesn’t necessarily lead to better lives" (published today in ScienceNorway), and some editing done on our GDP review article.
A popular science piece (chronicle) I have written on my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", "A large Gross Domestic Product doesn’t necessarily lead to better lives", has today been published by ScienceNorway.no. The article has been posted on the front-page, in the Researcher´s Zone, and in the thematic segment Society.
My paper "The study of past Umwelten" has been accepted for presentation at the 4th World Congress of Environmental History, to be held in Oulu, Finland August 19-23rd 2024, as part of the panel “Environmental biography as a methodological challenge”.
Today I have given the 8th lecture in Ex.phil. this Autumn. The topic was the relation between body and mind.
The program for Dyreetikkonferansen 2023, the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2023, has now been released. The theme is "Er kjærlighet nok? Når omsorgen for dyr går galt" (literally: Is love enough? When care for animals goes wrong). The event is held at Litteraturhuset in Oslo on December 12th.
I am scheduled to speak about the topic "Kjærlighet og kunnskap – henger det sammen?" (Love and knowledge - is there any connection?), and take part in the panel discussion, with the theme "Hvordan best forebygge vanskjøtsel og mishandling av dyr" (How best to prevent neglect and mistreatment of animals).
Today I attended the board meeting of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), as the organization´s Secretary.
I have agreed to be a member of the Scientific Committee of the conference "Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery", which is to be held at University of Tartu, Estonia, June 5–7 2024.
Abstracts are due December 1st - see the call for papers.
Today I have held the 3rd seminar in Ex.phil. this Autumn, in two rounds. This means I am half-way in terms of seminar teaching this term. The topics today was ethics.
Today I have had a writing day, #22,5 this Autumn, devoted to our GDP review article, with some 150 words written and editing done. I have also taken part in some planning regarding an article I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland, who I supervise (ph.d.).
I have been notified that my paper “The study of past Umwelten” has been considered as a transfer paper for the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History, “Transitions, transformations and transdisciplinarity: Histories beyond history”, to be held at University of Oulu, Finland 19th-23rd of August 2024. I have now selected three possibly relevant panels for transfer, and slighly revised the conference abstract, in three different versions.
See also:
Environmental crisis paper to be presented at Fourth World Congress of Environmental History
Today I gave the 7th Ex.phil. lecture this Autumn. The topic was philosophical anthropology / view of humanity.
The conference “Comparative Welfare: Cuban and Nordic Welfare: People`s experience of the welfare system”, which was to be held in Havana, Cuba, November 27th to December 1st, has been cancelled by the University of Havana. I was invited to speak as a keynote speaker.
Today I have had a writing day, with a popular science piece drafted based on my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", a little editing done in the GDP review article I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm, and some planning done regarding my book manuscript Captured: The fight for the soul of the environmental movement.
Today I have had a writing day, #20,5 this Autumn, mainly devoted to a co-written article with Martin Drenthen work-titled "Understanding persistent erroneous beliefs about wolf behaviour in light of ideas about animal agency", with some 700 words written and a disposition outlined.
Today I have had what ended up as a full writing day, with some 1.100 words added to Mars and the Earthlings. Also, my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" was published (see separate post), so I had some dissemination to do. This is the most productive writing day so far this Autumn in terms of number of words written. Number of writing days this Autumn is up to 19,5.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has today been published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, in Open Access format.
Reference:
Tønnessen, Morten 2023. Wasted GDP in the USA. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 10: 681. Published October 11th 2023. With Supplementary Information Appendix. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02210-y
Today I gave the second lecture in "Bærekraft og grønn omstilling" (Sustainability and green transition, SV100) at University of Stavanger. The topic was "Miljøetikk med særlig vekt på klimaetikk" (environmental ethics with emphasis on climate ethics). 10-11 people attended.
Today I have had half a writing day, #18,5 this Autumn, with work done on Mars and the Earthlings, with some 300 words written. I also signed a contract with Elsevier for my chapter to the Encyclopedia of Ecology (3rd edition), "Ecological semiotics", and communicated about the publication yesterday of "Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022".
The announcement text "Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022", which I co-wrote with Ludmila Lackova and Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, has been published online in Biosemiotics. Here is a link to SharedIt (readable text).
Abstract:
The Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award was established at the annual meeting of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) in 2014, in conjunction with Springer and Biosemiotics. It seeks to recognize papers published in the journal that present novel and potentially important contributions to biosemiotic research, its scientific impact, and its future prospects. Here the winner of the Biosemiotic Achievement Award for 2022 is announced: The award goes to Sigmund Ongstad for his article “Simple Utterances but Complex Understanding? Meta-studying the Fuzzy Mismatch between Animal Semantic Capacities in Varied Contexts”.
Reference:
— Ludmila Lackova, Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen & Morten Tønnessen 2023. Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022. Biosemiotics. Published online October 9th 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9
According to Google Scholar (cf. my profile), my research has to date attracted 967 citations (+14 since September 21st), including 105 so far in 2023 (+16 since September 21st). 2023 is now my 3rd best year in terms of number of citations, behind 2022 (181) and 2021 (147).
My i10-index remains 36 and my h-index 18.
With 24 citations, 15 of which from 2023, Semiotic agency: Science beyond mechanism (co-written with Alexei Sharov, published officially in 2021 but in effect in 2022) is now #13 on the list of my most cited texts, tied with "Umwelt trajectories" (2014) and "Wolf land" (2010).
My most cited text remains "Umwelt transitions: Uexküll and environmental change" (2009), with 82 citations altogether, including 16 this year (more than any other year).
Yesterday and today I have had half a writing day, proof-reading my forthcoming article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which will soon appear in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
Today I have given the 6th lecture in Ex.phil. as part of the University of Stavanger´s bachelor in psychology. The topic were the hermeneutics of suspicion, focused on Nietzsche and Freud, and ethics of care and proximity.
The lecture was concluded with a brief session with "early evaluation" (tidligdialog).
Today I have presented my paper “A biosemiotic perspective on the environmental crisis" digitally at the conference "(Un)Common Worlds III – Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes", which is organised at the University of Oulu (Finland) in collaboration with the University of Derby (UK) October 4–6th. Some 20 people attended on-site and online altogether. My presentation was given in the session “Worldlings, onto-epistemologies, and becomings”, chaired by Anna Vladimirova. The session also involved presentations by Wenrui Li and Ombre Tarragnat.
Today I have had half a writing day, with some 150 words altogether added to my book manuscript Captured and another contribution to the book Mars and the Earthlings, and some literature search and reading done.
I have been notofied that my paper “Anticipating the societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century” has been accepted for presentation at the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History, “Transitions, transformations and transdisciplinarity: Histories beyond history”, to be held at University of Oulu, Finland 19th-23rd of August 2024, as part of the roundtable “The Human-Environmental Relationships in Critical Period of Crisis”.
